Man tries to pickpocket woman, immediately panics when he pulls out a tampon

By Abigail Malbon| 3 years ago

What’s the best thing you can steal from a woman? Well, clearly a tampon, since one man got more than he bargained for when he slipped his hand into a woman’s pocket and pulled out a sanitary item.
Lisa Coen was on her daily commute when she felt a man’s hand in her pocket. However, rather than grabbing a phone or a wallet, as he was no doubt hoping, he wrapped his fingers around a tampon. Coen tweeted:
“Send prayers & good wishes for the guy who tried to pick my pocket on the luas, took out a tampon, got mortified & tried to put it back.”

The internet united with a mixture of anger and sympathy for the man in question. Fellow twitter users offered up their own versions of awkward robbery fails.
“My backpack was stolen while I was getting the baby out of the taxi. We were on our way home. Bag full of used cloth nappies. Very used,” one woman wrote.
Another added: “So my brother's friend was taking a stool sample to the lab & put it in a shopping bag. Guy snatched it from her hand & escaped on a bike.”

Clearly Coen’s story is the best example of subtle female revenge. Excuse me while I go fill my pockets with tampons...